Man behind Washington DC sniper attacks gets married in prison
One of the two men behind the 2002 sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington DC region got married in a jailhouse ceremony, according to a new report.
Lee Boyd Malvo, now 35, tied the knot last week in a ceremony at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, two people close to him confirmed to the Washington Post Tuesday.
Carmeta Albarus, who served as a mentor and adviser to Malvo during his 2003 trial, did not identify the woman — but called her “an absolutely wonderful individual,” according to the paper.
She said the couple was “allowed to hold hands,” but would not say whether they were allowed to kiss or have any further contact.
“I believe the institution was very accommodating,” she told the outlet.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad, 41, killed 10 people in Maryland, Virginia and Washington during a three-week period.
Malvo was ultimately convicted of two murders in Virginia and six in Maryland. He is facing life sentences without parole in all eight cases.
An inmate who witnessed the felon’s ceremony, which took place in the prison’s contact visit area, said it took place Friday during an approximately two-hour visit.
The bride was “a very impressive young lady,” Craig S. Cooley, one of Malvo’s original trial attorneys who has continued to represent him in his appeals, told the paper.
“Educated,” he added. “Her eyes are wide open.”
She is close in age to Malvo and started writing to him about two years ago before she began visiting him soon after that, Cooley said.
“I believe they are soul mates,” he told the paper. “She sees the good and sees Lee as I’ve always seen him, and I think the world would have seen him had Muhammad not taken over his life.”
Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in November 2009.
Virginia recently changed its rules to consider parole for juvenile offenders once they serve 20 years, but if Malvo were paroled from Virginia, he would then be required to serve his Maryland sentences.
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